[Desire General] cormie:
Update

So a little update after a few weeks usage:

The first install I did with the major slowdown had the SD card formatted to 1028 via ext 4 recovery mode and then had all apps reinstalled via titanium backup (backed up from mildwild 4.3 where I didn't have the SD-ext set up properly). After experiencing such great lag when opening apps (7 seconds with a black screen before gosms might open for example) I had to reinstall, so this time I did it differently.

First of all before flashing the rom again, I added some APK's to the system folder in the rom itself so these would be installed as system apps (so I replaced the calculator app with "real calc" along with a few other app replacements, getting rid of the experia launcher and replacing it with zeam launcher etc).

I then went to ext 4 recovery, cleared data, cleared cache, then installed rom and kernel from SD card and rebooted to fresh, clean new rom. Everything seemed fine. I went to applications and put SD ext and data2sd on, rebooted, went to applications and changed prefer install location to SD-ext, rebooted again checked all options were ok, THEN set up google account and the installed each additional app fresh from the market and set up each additional app individually (no titanium backup).

So the phone at this stage had completely fresh 4.4 rom (with a little app customisation) and then everything else fresh too. No additional mods such as V6 Supercharger and I don't have any processor edits done.

So the slowdown appeared to be better, but there was still a definite lag with some things which I don't remember being so bad in Mildwild 4.3. The batter seems to have become much worse, before a busy day with calls it might last from being unplugged at 08:00 until around 21:00, now it's switching off at around 18:00 with less use. I still have random shut downs when the phone is in my pocket (this has been the case with EVERY rom I've had on it!) but what promoted me to come back and update the thread was the phone just shutting itself off while the battery was around 68% in the middle of writing a text last night and also that it had turned itself off in my pocket twice in the last 2 days.

Also, from within the gosms app, voice search (voice to text which I used for writing messages alot before) is force closing every time I try to open it up.

I've come to the conclusion that I think it might just be time to move on, I can no longer rely on the desire for business use and don't have the patience to do another complete rehaul with the high chance of similar issues again.

I've been waiting for a powerful, high quality phone to come out that's around the same dimensions as the desire as all the newer phones are just too big for what I do (furniture removals so having something long and wide in my pocket while carrying heavy furniture, boxes, pianos would probably get in the way). The screen size of the desire has suited me just fine.

I think I might look into the Razr I or see if there's any more "mini" phones on the horizon.

I could try go back to 4.3 but I'm not sure if the SD-ext might be causing the slow down and don't really have the patience to keep trying and testing. 4.3 was very good to me. The only problems I had with it were the low space warnings (I only had 19mb of internal space free at the best of times and had to clear my emails etc regularly to keep it from giving me warnings). and then the random shut dows I had with 4.3 also, I suspect this was a phone issue and not a rom issue as it happened with both desires I own with every rom I tried and maybe even stock?

So unfortunately, it looks like a phone upgrade might be the best option :(